Brick by Brick: Building Open Source libraries
summary
A pintro (AppIntro) starts as an onboarding library that now has more than 10,000 stars on GitHub, handles onboarding, permissions and custom layouts, and is migrating to a Kotlin DSL with Compose support to keep the API elegant and stable. Advice includes using Kotlin explicit API mode, @JvmOverloads, sealed classes, and avoiding public data classes; publish to Jetpack/GitHub Packages/Maven Central; automate with CI, Renovate automerge, Danger, SARIF and Stale bot; use semantic versioning and conventional commits.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to open source
- 1:30Building library foundations
- 4:00Designing elegant APIs
- 9:20Keeping APIs stable
- 14:01Publishing your library
- 18:18Setting release expectations
- 22:33Maintaining repository health
- 26:30Enforcing community rules
- 30:44Growing your community
- 37:35Q&A session
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